Longer publications, such as books and magazines, generally consist of one document per chapter or article. InDesign’s book
features allow you to combine the documents so you can track page numbers across chapters; create tables of contents, indexes,
cross-references, and footnotes; globally update styles; and output the book as one file.

Getting started

In this lesson, you’ll combine several documents into an InDesign book file. A book file allows you to perform many functions
across all the documents—such as creating a table of contents or updating styles—while retaining the ability to open and edit
each document individually. The four sample documents you’ll work with consist of the table of contents, first chapter, second
chapter, and index from an 11-chapter book. The skills you learn in this lesson apply to book files consisting of any number
of documents.

NOTE

If you have not already copied the resource files for this lesson onto your hard disk from the Adobe InDesign CS4 Classroom
in a Book CD, do so now. See “Copying the Classroom in a Book files.”

To ensure that the preferences and default settings of your Adobe InDesign CS4 program match those used in this lesson, move
the InDesign Defaults file to a different folder following the procedure in “Saving and restoring the InDesign Defaults file” on page 2.

Start Adobe InDesign CS4. To ensure that the panels and menu commands match those used in this lesson, choose Window > Workspace
> [Advanced], and then choose Window > Workspace > Reset Advanced.